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[Make sure to read Daniel Greenfield’s contributions in Jamie Glazov’s new book: Barack Obama’s True Legacy: How He Transformed America.]
In the 6 days of the truce with Hamas, the Islamic terror groups targeted Israeli soldiers with two IED attacks and murdered a pregnant woman and a 73-year-old Rabbi in Jerusalem.
And the latest truce, ceasefire or whatever you want to call it is still young.
So far the death toll from the truce includes Liba Dickman, a 24-year old preschool teacher pregnant with her first child, Chanah Ifergan, a 67-year-old principal and Rabbi Elimelech Wasserman, a 73-year-old rabbi. Who knows what more deaths the bloody truce will bring.
3 dead and at least 11 wounded after only 6 days of truce.
That’s what truces, ceasefires and peace agreements with Islamic terrorists amount to.
Wait two years, the way Hamas did before Oct 7, and the ceasefire will kill a thousand people. After 30 years of the Oslo Accord peace deal with the PLO, it’s around three thousand.
The one thing sure to happen after negotiating with terrorists is that the body count will go up. Reaching agreements with Islamic terrorists doesn’t end the violence because they never stop wanting to kill you. All it does is give them the time and space to plan their next attack.
Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar (pictured above) used the truce to issue a statement declaring that, “October 7th was just a rehearsal”. Ghazi Hamad, the head of Hamas’ political operation, previously vowed that the Oct 7 attacks “is just the first time, and there will be a second, a third, a fourth” until Israel is destroyed. What is the point of a ceasefire with terrorists who exist to destroy you?
And yet the streets of every major city are filled with Hamas supporters and Marxists howling for a “ceasefire”. Some members of the House and Senate have called for a “permanent ceasefire”. The only way to achieve a “permanent ceasefire” with an Islamic terror group is to destroy it.
Hamas is thrilled by its supporters and urged them “to continue their rallies in solidarity with our Palestinian people and our just cause” and against Israel and “to call for an end to its barbaric aggression” even as Hamas bosses boast that they will go on attacking until Israel is destroyed.
But that’s what a ceasefire is. The Islamic terrorists get to attack you, you don’t get to fight back.
The entire ceasefire narrative is a lie. A means to recruit useful idiots to a genocidal cause. A ceasefire with terrorists doesn’t end the killing, it enables it, it doesn’t end the violence, it perpetuates it. The killing and the violence won’t end until the Islamic terrorists are destroyed.
The only reason that Hamas isn’t killing Israelis at any given moment right now is that its capabilities have been reduced by weeks of bombings and assaults. The Islamic terror group has lost some of its top commanders, weapons caches and command centers. Its Jihadis have been dispersed among the civilian population and no longer control some of their old positions.
That’s why they want a ceasefire to regroup, consolidate and stage another assault.
Hamas leaders have been open about this: it’s their ceasefire propagandists rioting in our streets, staging insurrections at the Capitol and blocking bridges who are lying about it.
But then again when has the anti-war movement not lied about the intentions of its allies?
When Communists protested against the United States entering the war against Nazi Germany during the Hitler-Stalin Pact, when they marched in the streets to save Communist China, North Korea, Pol Pot and every Communist monster in Asia, every Marxist madman in Latin America, and after that every Islamic terror state around the world: they did it in the name of peace.
The blood of over 100 million people are on the hands of a century of “peace protesters” who have been consistently on the side of evil every single time in 100 years of riots and rallies.
Theirs is the credit for camps and famines in China and North Korea, for the devastation (and the constant migration) out of Latin America, and the destruction of the Middle East.
Now they’re out there demanding that Hamas get a chance to finish what it started.
When they call for a ceasefire with Hamas, what they’re really calling for is Jewish genocide. They’re pulling on the soldier’s hand that holds the gun so the terrorist can stab him in the back.
There are no truces or ceasefires with Jihadists: only a balance of power. The moment they can attack you and kill you, they will because that is their entire purpose in life and the primary means of expansion of the religion that they represent. The only way to stop them from killing you is to kill them or to build a wall and watch it every second of every day.
The moment your attention wanders, they will come across, as they did on Oct 7, and kill you.
No agreement that Hamas or any Islamic terrorist group, including the Palestinian Authority, makes is worth anything to anyone except it. A truce or ceasefire with Islamic terrorists gives them the ability to carry out a surprise attack and robs you of the right to strike first.
Truces or ceasefires with Islamic terrorists don’t work for Israel, nor do they work for anyone else. The Taliban violated every part of the agreement that they negotiated with us through their intermediaries in Qatar (who also negotiated the previous Hamas ceasefire and the current truce.) Ceasefires and truces in the Syrian and Yemen civil wars were violated more often than kept. Saddam Hussein broke every truce, whether it was with Iran or the United States. Iran violated all the agreements that it signed with us. Agreements with Islamic terrorists and terror states are worthless whether they’re with non-Muslims or even with fellow Muslims.
The only sacred rule that holds in Islam is the law of force. It is the only true law in Islam. From the earliest days when Mohammed ethnically cleansed the Jewish population of Arabia to the wars of the present day, everything is settled by the sword, and nothing by treaty or humanity.
The Sunni and Shiite wars have gone on for nearly as long as Islam existed, and they continue. All the endless agreements, truces and ceasefires never stopped Muslims from killing each other for 1,400 years over whether Mohammed should have been succeeded by his father-in-law or his cousin and son-in-law. What hope do non-Muslims have for peace? None.
There can be no truce with terrorists. The only two choices are terror or victory.
Algorithmic Analyst says
To adhere to a truce requires a certain amount of self-control. I suspect the primitive types don’t have it. Mobs of primitives are easily swayed by emotions of the moment. Forgetting what they agreed to in the past.
Una Salus says
They’re crazy but they’re not stupid. Hamas ended the ceasefire because they wanted to. They didn’t want to release any more hostages so they didn’t. The they killed some people to make it official.
I think we can put to bed the idea that Hamas inadvertently miscalculated on Oct 7, They have may have gambled to some extent. What is the next thing Israelis are telling themselves? That this is all part of a grand strategy. Israel will pound Hamas some more and get another ceasefire and another batch of hostages. I hope it works out that way.
Lloyd Austin is already getting up on his podium and beginning to castigate Israel for alienating Palestinians and driving them into the hands of Hamas. What a joke. Squad member Jayapal Jihad is on message talking about America alienating all its allies in the region. We’re not supposed to ask who those allies are.
LLoyd Austin is apparently the guy who came up with Hamas is worse than ISIS thing. Netanyahu picked up on this as likes to do but it’s a distinction without much difference and ISIS would probably still be around if Austin and his squad had continued running things.
Looking at Israeli media we see people merrily stating that they don’t regret the hostage return and aren’t likely to in the future. Obviously it is very difficult to regret it after seeing families reunited and everybody coming together. Obviously, but do they really they releasing Yahya Sinwar yet? Do they actually comprehend the gravity?
There are a disturbing amount of bubble heads in Israel and they dominate a disturbing proportion of the conversation bubble. Hamas is ISIS or worse if that’s the new catchphrase but they’re not bubble heads.
commonsense says
Good comment, for once, but one correction: Yahiya Sinwar is not a captive. He’s holing up in Doha or somewhere, far from Gaza and out of harm’s way. So much for his assertion that he loves death.
Curt says
I’m sure that arrangements are being made
STJOHNOFGRAFTON says
Holed up somewhere like with his billionaire Hamas elites.
See this article in The New York Post:
“Hamas leaders worth staggering $11B revel in luxury — while Gaza’s people suffer”.
https://nypost.com/2023/11/07/news/hamas-leaders-worth-11bn-live-luxury-lives-in-qatar/
Kasandra says
Islam doesn’t recognize treaties. It only recognizes “hudnas” which are temporary truces that last only so long as Moslems are in a weaker condition. When they gain the upper hand, the truce ends and the armed conflict resumes. Only ignorant, unprincipled, cowardly people like those running our current administration believe that an agreement between Hamas and Israel could have any possible value or be in Israel’s interest. But, then again, they have no regard for Israel’s legitimate interests.
Geoffrey Britain says
Re: “The killing and the violence won’t end until the Islamic terrorists are destroyed.”
Kill EVERY current Islamic terrorist and Islam will simply raise up a new crop of murderous fanatics.
Re: “The only way to stop them from killing you is to kill them or to build a wall and watch it every second of every day.”
Given Islam’s inexhaustible supply of murderous fanatics, the West is ‘forced’ (by its own thinking) into playing “Whac-a-mole. History has repeatedly demonstrated that ‘walls’ are a temporary measure because they inevitably lead to complacency.
Re: ” The moment they can attack you and kill you, they will because that is their entire purpose in life and the primary means of expansion of the religion that they represent. ”
Ah here we get to the nub of the issue, which is Islam’s theological imperative… declared by Allah himself in his ‘sacred’ Qur’an… the Jews MUST be exterminated and the entire world MUST be made Islamic.
Geoffrey Britain says
part 2
Given all of the above, what to do?
When you cannot eliminate a mortal enemy, you must search for a way to deter them and you do so by attaching to the actions you need to deter WHAT FOR THEM are intolerable consequences to those actions.
Islamic terrorism consists of two basic elements; recruitment of the indoctrinated young and the devout, radical Mullah’s and Imams who drive Islam’s Jihad. Recruitment of the young jihadist can be deterred by removing the incentive, which of course is Islam’s promise of paradise. The Qur’an itself offers the way to greatly deter recruitment. Allah in the Qur’an has declared that, any Muslim who at the time of their death is in an ‘unclean’ state can NEVER enter paradise. Any contact, however brief with any part of a pig instantly renders a Muslim unclean and it takes a special cleansing ritual to render that Muslim back into a ‘clean’ state. This is why devout Muslims freak out whenever they realize that they have unknowingly eaten pork or anything prepared in contact with pork.
A bullet fired from a gun which has been cleaned with gun oil that contains pig fat that strikes a jihadist will instantly render them unclean. So by their own beliefs, if they are killed… no paradise awaits them, only hell. Now, if a young Muslim is considering becoming a jihadist, they face the risk of hell rather than paradise. Obviously not all journalists will be killed, some will be captured. In that case, they must be given a quick, fair trial and upon conviction immediately executed in a highly unclean manner. No paradise, no exceptions.
Huapakechi says
When the United States took the Philippines from Spain, they inherited the fanatic moslem Juramentados murderers who only sought to kill as many infidels as they could before they were cut down. This problem was endemic to the region with the Philippine authorities mouthing their helplessness and lack of control over the population.
Colonel Willis A. Wallace of the 15th Cavalry claimed credit for innovating the practice of burying the terrorists with pigs in March 1903 to dissuade the Muslim terrorist who believed that “every Christian he kills places him so much closer in contact with the Mohammedan heaven.”
Political correctness carries with it a high price in lives.
These days we do not bury pigs with Muslim terrorists. Our political and military leaders shudder at the thought of Muslims accusing us of blasphemy. And so instead we bury thousands of victims of that murderous cult.
Perhaps we should economize on the burial of pigs with terrorists and feed terrorists to the pigs? I’m sure the effect would be the same, and the practice would obviate the need for graves.
Algorithmic Analyst says
The terrorists should definitely be fed to the pigs. That they are not shows how lame our political leaders are.
For example, the cannibal warriors in Africa during the 1800s and earlier weren’t afraid to die in battle. But they were terrified that enemy cannibals would eat their body parts afterwards, so they would bug out and refuse to fight. Some strange belief system.
Geoffrey Britain says
part 3
So two with the Jihad promoting Mullahs and Imams. But in their case assassinations will prove to be of limited utility, as they will go into hiding and will gain great protection. So to deter them, what they value most must be credibly threatened. Which is the status within the Muslim world that they hold. And that status is most demonstrated by Islam’s ‘holy’ sites. None of which have ever been lost. Israel and the West must declare a new policy; any future terrorist attack upon the West will result in the consequence of the destruction of an Islamic holy site. To persuade them of our seriousness the consequence for the first series attack should be the destruction of Jerusalem’s Dome of the Rock. Impress upon them the lesson; No attacks = no consequence. Riots should be down forcefully, if domestic Muslims want a war give it to them and deport them all because Islam’s support for Taqiyya and Muruna make it impossible to ascertain the sincerity of Muslims who claim to be non-violent. Islam’s fundamental tenets, declared by Allah himself are utterly incompatible with the West’s inalienable rights of “life, liberty and the [individual’s] pursuit of happiness.
In addition, it must be declared that the day that any country suffers a nuclear attack by an Islamic terrorist group… is the day that Mecca ceases to exist. Obviously, there will be great resistance to this from the Left and the useful idiot liberals, it’s going to take the loss of a city or two before the Western Left and Liberals will put their survival before their ‘principles’.
Finally, Islam is NOT a religion, it is a death cult. Described most accurately, Islam is a violently expansionist, totalitarian ideology that has wrapped itself within a facade of religious pretense. It must be seen for what it is and treated as that.
You deter a mortal enemy by attaching to the actions you need to deter WHAT FOR THEM are intolerable consequences.
Mo de Profit says
I cannot disagree with you on these three points, however, we must all recognise that the majority of muslims don’t want to dominate, they want to live their lives just like us.
The problem is too few will openly state this.
Nicolas Carras says
” we must all recognise that the majority of muslims don’t want to dominate”
You don’t know what we call Jihad circles.
You have those who commit terrorist acts and who finance them, first circle. You have those who do not commit terrorist acts, but who agree with terrorist actions, second circle. You have those who are not for terrorism, but who believe that sometimes it is justified, third circle. You have those who are against terrorist acts, but who are for the implementation of Sharia, even in Western countries. fourth circle…
That’s more than half of the Muslims on this earth. Hundreds of millions of people.
Geoffrey Britain says
Are you familiar with the term Hijrah? It translates as “migratory Jihad”. Consider this quote from a 1974 speech at the UN and apply it to Western Europe; “One day, millions of men will leave the Southern Hemisphere to go to the Northern Hemisphere. And they will not go there as friends. Because they will go there to conquer it. And they will conquer it with their sons. The wombs of our women will give us victory.” Algerian president Houari Boumediene
Of the millions of Muslim migrants, perhaps most would claim to be nonviolent. Yet in retaining their allegiance to Islam they cling to a ideology that is fundamentally in opposition to Western cultural principles.
“What does the idiom to ride two horses at the same time mean?
to try to follow two conflicting sets of ideas at the same time.”
“No one can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other.” Matthew 6:24-26
Una Salus says
Thoughts and prayers with Israel. Thanks for everything Daniel.
Steven Brizel says
There can be no ceasefire only the unconditional surrender by Hamas and the freeing of the hostages
Chief Mac says
Israel must to fire until every Islamofascist ceases to exist
mj says
Ceasefire. Here’s another word that today’s global terrorists have redefined, just as they have redefined ‘democracy‘, ‘justice‘, ‘rights’, ‘privilege’, ‘humanitarianism’, ‘morality’, ‘truth’, ‘history’, ‘occupation’ and ‘unbearableness’. A glossary of slippery terror terms, a go-to dictionary of lies. a brainwashing manual for too, too many people full of anger and hate.
Another word now being redefined is ‘society’.
The ideologically, ethnically and religiously homogeneous ‘society‘ in Gaza is in stark contrast to the democratic notion that free society in a democracy is inherently diverse. Terrorists want us to believe that counter to the reality of their homogeneity, there supposedly exists heterogeneity of two separate and opposing, conflicting societal elements in Gaza: Hamas people and non-Hamas people, who, logically, would include Hamas people’s spouses, grandparents, parents, siblings, children and friends, teachers, business associates, UN personnel and imams.
What does exist is two economic strata within a unified whole: the elite, Hamas billionaire aristocracy in mansions and Qatar, and the ordinary Hamas folk, happy and willing jihadists in the trenches.
My understanding of the original meaning of a ‘ceasefire’ relates to stopping fighting because, with an assortment of mitigating factors, including reassessment of intent,
cost, loss and reordering of priorities, there is a stalemate, on both sides. There is no more endgame.
This certainly is not the case with Israel and mortal enemy Hamas, among others (!) ‘Ceasefire’ is Hamas’s pre-meditated, calculated war tactic.
There is an ancient insight regarding the story of Cain and Abel: Abel actually had overpowered his brother during their fight. Cain began to plead for mercy. Abel, moved by the ‘performance’, loosened his grip; and in that instant, Cain pinned down Abel and murdered him.
Dr2xFour says
When we talk death tolls we never take into account those not allowed a chance at this beautiful thing called life. The deads children, their children, the grandkids, etc., etc.
Taking that into account the body count is unfathomable. Probably why we never go there.
I rest easy in knowing the vegetable in chief and his band of despotic minions have a plan to stanch the rivers of blood, oceans of blood, the bleeding, continual bleeding this criminal enterprise has been a party to.
Rest east Frontpagemagians…. Joe’s on the job.
I think what Joe is trying to say to Israel is….
“Go F yourself”
Algorithmic Analyst says
Sinwar can easily bug out and escape via Egypt. A common pattern with unscrupulous leaders.It will be interesting to see if he bugs out and leaves his soldiers in the lurch.
SPURWING PLOVER says
Pull America out of the United Nations and move the whole lot to either Moscow or Bejing just get these foreign Invaders out of America we can turn the UN facility into a Homeless Shelter
Martha says
https://info-and-data.blogspot.com/2023/12/arab-palestinian-attempt-to-massacre.html
Arab “Palestinian” attempt to massacre some 12,000 Israelis VS fake mumbers by Hamas so-called Gaza health ministry
https://www.jns.org/more-than-11500-rockets-launched-at-israel-since-oct-7/
‘More than 11,500 rockets launched at Israel since Oct. 7’
RS says
Well, once again, theres nothing new under the sun. Hamas breaks a ceasefire by attacking Israel, as they have in the past and now in the present. They can’t wait to show their vengeance. Learn the Hard way then.
John Blackman says
islam is a terrorist entity , not one of the so called great religions . unfortunately the left and the right won’t admit to it and will continue the fiction of a 2 state solution and the fakesetinians as a distinct group . the west believe the lies because to admit the truth would have the streets overrun with the terrorists that have been allowed to migrate in their hordes thanks to feckless politicians . the west loves islam because they control vast swathes of the worlds population who dare not buck the totalitarian nature of islam which is what the left want , so the left mimic islam in control of the populace and go after anyone who goes against the official narrative . trump and the j6 crowd are a case in point . unfortunately islam and the left have it all over any opposition as they control all the levers of govt. education , media , and judiciary . america is doomed , time to get used to it .
James H. says
It is time for the world and all civilized societies step up to the plate. It is an extremely old saying, but it’s truth is actually visible.
“The only good terrorist is a dead terrorist”
Wes says
Terrorists that say Allah or some other entity told them to do it, is bull. That entity is not the God made the world. God doesn’t encourage hate. He sent his only son, out of love for all mankind. Love is never mentioned in a Terrorists words or actions. Therefore they do not know God. Hey cannot receive the Holy Spirit to understand. Therefore they are lost. Allah, Mohammad are not the God that created the world. Jesus was the savior. He covered man’s sins. By shedding his blood in our place. He was in Gods image. And came to earth as a man. He covered our sins so we have a way to God. There is no other way to God. Idols and other people or things cannot replace Jesus. The lost cannot understand. That is why they must Repent and be Baptized. Confess they are sinners, and then God gives them understanding. By Faith, not by works that any man shall boast. Then go out and tell others the good news. That the believer will go to Heaven and Jesus is the savior. According to God, you will worship no other God. I am the truth, the way, and the life. Body will die. Cemeteries are full in every country, city, state. The soul is the being that will be Heaven and hell. Those who kill, murder, steal, cannot enter Heaven. They must give that up and follow the right way. Tell people the good news. Know when this body dies, he soul will be with God. Those that ignore God, will be cast in the lake of fire. Separated from God. Governments fall. This life is short. Why would anyone reject God? His love? Because the devil has blinded them. Turn from your wicked ways. Will struggle as the flesh is weak. But, have peace, knowing you will go to Heaven. Pray in Jesus Name. Do it. Do. It let the devil take your salvation. Turn from your wicked ways.
Walter Sieruk says
All any continued “ceasefire” would do is to give time for the jihadists ,who belong to that murderous jihad entity Hamas, to regroup and then viciously attack Israel again and viciously murder her people.
Walter Sieruk says
How dare that demonic vicious jihad terror entity, Hamas, engage in deadly and destructive Islamic terror attacks against Israel, which is God’s “special treasure.” which is Israel .
Psalm 135:4. [N.K.J.V.]